Two butchers wheel a cart loaded with meat. Crowd entering a department store or mall. View of street from above, behind two horse sculptures, suspended from building. Man, in open chauffered car, smokes cigar and reads newspaper. Vehicular traffic on the road. Men ride bicycles. Shops lined on the sides of the street. Barge traffic on river. Man cleans window inside office building with view of Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) outside. View of passersby from inside a flower shop with water running down its windows. Men drink beer, standing at cafe counter. Electric trolley car (tram) passes on street. Doubledecker buses and elevated train are seen at Xanderplatz. View of feet of people boarding bus. View from top deck of bus. Park and sidewalk vendors.
A nurse talks and laughs with two girls. She gives a bottle with nipple to one, who drinks from it. Modern curvilinear multi-story residential apartment buildings. Trains pass above each other on crossing railroad bridges, while an excursion boat and barge pass below on a river. Trucks and electric trams pass on the street. Berlin Policeman directs traffic. A massive clock tower. Men at an outdoor soup kitchen. A Berlin policeman is among those eating soup. German people sit in an open-air sidewalk restaurant. Chefs prepare food in the kitchen. Dishes cleaned in the kitchen. Food is served to the diners. Double decker buses pass by. Women squeeze sausage links from an extruding device. Sausages placed on racks. Men drink beverages and eat at a restaurant counter. Railroad porter sits on train station platform and eats a sandwich while people walk past, behind him. Old man, driver of horse-drawn carriage, wearing top hat and heavy coat, sits atop the carriage eating a sandwich. Petrol station attendant services an automobile in the gasoline station. Man on sidewalk eats items from a paper bag. Woman decorating store window behind him. Bicycle parked against building.
Several pigeons gathered on a square. Building in the background. A man sits on steps of building, smoking a pipe. Old women sit and talk. Horse eats from feed bag while driver of the carriage (one in a line) dozes waiting for a passenger. A man riding in an open carriage lights his cigar in the wind. He wears a hat with decorative brush in hatband. Traffic passes by. A view of the Victory Column (Siegessäule) in Königsplatz A man talks on a telephone. Woman works at telephone switchboard. Mail sacks emptied and piled on tables, and then each mail piece is rapidly hand stamped. Policemen ride in open car through heavy traffic, while one of them blows on a trumpet or horn. Policeman arrests a man, holding him by the collar. Pigeons fly by the Berlin Cathedral. Newspapers and magazines on street corner (including The American "Saturday Evening Post" with cover partially visible from September 1932 edition).
View towards starboard bow of the German Rotor Ship, "Buckau", at anchor, being photographed from a small boat that rocks with the waves. Another view towards her starboard stern. Brief closeup glimpse of one of her 50 ft tall rotor cylinders. View of the "Buckau" from starboard, abeam. Change of scene shows a German Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine at anchor, viewed from the "Buckau." Camera pans port-side of the battleship, from stern towards bow, and continues panning left showing the deck and some crew of the "Buckau," from which it is filming. Next, two German warships are seen anchored, directly astern of the rotor ship.
A crowd of German civilians is seen gathered in the Lustgarten. But the scene shifts suddenly to the Berlin Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in the Grunewald Racecourse. Men in old-fashioned traditional military uniforms march into the stadium, carrying flags of the various German States. They parade around the perimeter of the stadium. Flag of the German Weimar Republic flies over the principal building in the stands. The flag bearers on the field lower their flags, in salute. Next, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, enter the field, leading several military officers, together with a civilian, carrying a sign reading: "I.G.I.D." They are followed by a long line of civilians. Spectators are on their feet in the stands where some men wave their hats and some women wave handkerchiefs. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Paul von Hindenburg, second President of the German Reich,enters a car and rides in a motorcade, accompanied by Horse Guards and motorcycle escorts. Spectators line the streets to watch. Crowds fill a square. The procession passes through the Brandenburg Gate. Hindenburg leads group of politicians down the stairs of a building, where they stop and
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